Now, this week we are talking about trauma and I have some pretty strong beliefs about trauma and how it is used to perpetuate the victim mindset that is running roughshod in today’s society. Now Trauma does happen but that is a rare occurrence as opposed to how trauma experts push it.
There are two types of trauma. There is real trauma, this is where somebody is physically harmed in a heightened emotional state. This can be a loved one you see being harmed in a horrific way or it happens to you.
Then there is the traumatic event and which is an emotional feeling brought on by a thought. So you’re being dumped by your first girlfriend feels traumatic but not everyone is going to have that same response. Since that is the case the thought of being duped creates an emotional response of feeling traumatized.
Now our speaker today talks a lot about trauma and I wanted to bring her on so that you can see how living a life in an unintentional state will cause you to believe you don’t have control over your life. Now she’s one with who I don’t agree with many of her points but again this is so you can see what people do when they live under an unintentional model.
You will see as she talks she shows you how if you are living an intentional life you will often do things to avoid emotional feelings. You avoid the “negative” emotions or you will resist emotions and doing this will cause us to do stuff that we know is wrong. We are depressed so we eat 2 dozen cookies and a gallon of ice cream without thinking about it. Then when we are don’t we feel miserable because we are over full. Yet we ate those cookies and ice cream because at the moment we got to feel something other than the feeling of negative emotions say rejection. You don’t feel rejected while eating, and when you are done eating you aren’t feeling rejected you are feeling self-loathing for being stuffed.
That is the act of not being intentional in your life and emotional being. You are busy avoiding emotions, avoiding that feeling instead of allowing the emotions to pass through you and see that the feeling doesn’t hurt you.
